FRANCE: How Else, Monsieur?

There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France
and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police
commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially
underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress,
and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on
13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a
racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up
for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs.

Last week Pierre and Betty were both in a Paris jail, their racket
uncovered.